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134th Delaware General Assembly

This date was January 5, 1987, which was two weeks before the beginning of the third administrative year of Republican Governor Michael N. Castle from New Castle County and the third year for Democratic Lieutenant Governor Shien Biau Woo, also from New Castle County.

14th Battalion, Maratha Light Infantry

In the last weeks of the war in Europe, during February 1945, the 14th Battalion proceeded overseas for service in Iraq (Mesopotamian campaign).

Atemlos

The first single "Try" featuring Nadia Ali was released three weeks before the official album launch date.

Carl Groszman

He is most notable for his song "A Dose of Rock and Roll" which was covered by Ringo Starr in 1976 for his album Ringo's Rotogravure Starr's cover of the song reached #26 on the U.S. singles chart and stayed on the Billboard for 9 weeks.

Colin Bates

In November 2005 at preliminary auditions for Billy in the U.S., he went to the audition, being 15 when the cut-off age was 14; but director Stephen Daldry, realizing Colin would be too old for the Broadway production but also realizing his potential, brought Bates to London a few weeks later with his family to start rehearsals and debuted on March 13, 2006.

Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor

Montagu Borgoyne was the original chair person, but after a few weeks his business interests took him away from London and he was replaced by Benjamin Johnson, who in turn suffered ill-health and was replaced by Jonas Hanway.

Crisis management

Mattel Inc., the toy maker, has been plagued with more than 28 product recalls and in Summer of 2007, amongst problems with exports from China, faced two product recalls in two weeks.

Echo Point

TV3 in New Zealand picked up the series for just a few weeks in 1996 but then later cancelled, the show featured former Shortland Street actor Martin Henderson.

Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby

Six weeks after the first Lady Derby's death, at the age of 44 on 14 March 1797, he married the actress Elizabeth Farren, daughter of George Farren, on 1 May 1797.

Eric Stoltz

Originally cast as Marty McFly for Back to the Future in 1985, he was replaced after five weeks of filming, when Michael J. Fox (the director's first choice for the role) agreed to divide time between the movie and his television sitcom, Family Ties.

Eric V, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg

Armies of both cities opened a second front and conquered Bergedorf, Riepenburg castle and the Esslingen river toll station (today's Zollenspieker Ferry) within weeks.

Erika Chambers

From October 1978 over a period of six weeks, they noted that Salameh spent most afternoons with his wife, former Miss Universe Georgina Rizk, at her apartment in Snoubra, West Beirut, and when not in meetings spent time at the gym and at a sauna.

Finchley Children's Music Group

In 2008/2009 FCMG celebrated its 50th Anniversary and this celebration was marked by further commissions: Two song cycles for children’s choir from composers John Pickard (Songs of Rain and Sea with text by Sigrún Davídsdóttir) and James Weeks (Hototogisu, a setting of 17 Haiku written by the great Japanese post Basho).

Flag of Tasmania

Two weeks later, on 23 November, those flags were officially abandoned because Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, the Secretary of State for the Colonies in London made it clear that only a single badge could be placed at the fly end of the ensign, as set out by rule of the British Admiralty.

Fort Ellsworth

Over the seven weeks that followed the occupation of northern Virginia, forts were constructed along the banks of the Potomac River and at the approaches to each of the three major bridges (Chain Bridge, Long Bridge, and Aqueduct Bridge) connecting Virginia to Washington and Georgetown.

Franz Mattenklott

On 25 July 1940, he was temporarily detached as commander of Metz for five weeks, but returned to the 72nd Infantry Division on 4 September 1940.

Georgina Rylance

The same year, she spent a month in Antarctica and several weeks in Peru working in an orphanage.

Give Me a Little More Time

Written by Gabrielle, and Ben Barson with The Boilerhouse Boys, after two disappointing single performances, "Give Me a Little More Time" returned Gabrielle to the UK top ten, peaking at #5, spending ten weeks inside the UK top 20 alone.

Hippie exploitation films

Riot on Sunset Strip is a 1967 low-budget exploitation movie, released by American International Pictures, and filmed and released within six weeks of the actual late-1966 Sunset Strip curfew riots.

History of the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks

On 22 September 2006, the Sharks Board ended weeks of speculation over the future of coach Stuart Raper by sacking him as first grade coach and handing him a $300,000 payout, making him the second consecutive coach to receive such a payout.

Hop, Look and Listen

The song playing on the opening titles is "You Never Know Where You're Goin' Till You Get There", which had been sung by Sylvester a few weeks earlier in Back Alley Oproar.

Howard Roffman

The book, Heir to the Empire by noted science fiction author Timothy Zhan stayed on the The New York Times Best Seller list for nineteen weeks, paving the way for a highly successful re-launch of the franchise.

Jack Poels

Since the beginning of 2009, Jack Poels has been publishing a poem in the Dutch regional magazine Dagblad de Limburger every two weeks.

Jedermann sein eigner Fussball

In spite of its absurdist amusements, this singular issue was a work of impassioned radical opinion, published only a few weeks after the communist revolt in Berlin had been quashed by Gustav Noske's Free Corps, and Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg murdered.

Joachim Meisner

It was widely recognized that Meisner was criticizing the stained-glass window in Cologne Cathedral by Gerhard Richter, which was revealed just weeks before and of which he disapproved.

Ken Catran

Ken's television credits include soap operas (Radio Waves, Close to Home) as well as stand-out episodes in the TV drama Mortimer's Patch including two episodes that were the most watched TV programme in New Zealand in their respective weeks: a feat that is unlikely to be repeated.

KNDD

Within six weeks of The End's first broadcast, three albums by local artists — Ten by Pearl Jam, Nevermind by Nirvana and Badmotorfinger by Soundgarden — were released.

Kola Adedoyin

Disaster again struck a couple of weeks later when he ruptured ankle ligaments in Geneva, Switzerland 6 weeks before the World Junior Championships.

Lyndel Soon

She was asked to fill in the state level position as a favor, due to a fact that a delegate of (Kedah state, Malaysia) had quit 2 weeks before the Miss Malaysia Tourism pageant.

Mary S. Lovell

Her book on Markham, Straight on Till Morning, researched and written in under a year, after weeks of interviews with the subject in Nairobi, became an immediate international bestseller when it was published in 1987 and was twelve weeks on the New York Times Best Seller lists.

Off the Ground

Some weeks after its release, McCartney launched "The New World Tour", taking in many successful shows across the globe during the summer months.

Parliament of Nauru

Two weeks after the April 2010 election, Godfrey Thoma was elected Speaker.

Petrosoft

Fuel-Central® -- Jobber software designed to schedule hundreds of runs weeks in advance and in real time.

Potter sequence

An infant girl born in July 2013 to US Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler has survived two weeks with the condition.

Rawhide 2010

The bar was affected by the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster, and though normally a 24-hour establishment, shut down for many weeks.

Rick Warren

Two weeks before the 2008 U.S. general election, Warren issued a statement to his congregation endorsing California Proposition 8, which would amend the California Constitution to say "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California," thereby eliminating the right of same-sex couples to marry.

Roderick N. Matheson

He traveled to Washington, D.C., for Abraham Lincoln's inauguration in 1861, intending to stay only a few weeks, but found himself swept up in the fever of approaching war.

Rural electrification

In 2005, a musical about the rural electrification of Ireland, The Wiremen, written by composer Shay Healy, directed by Matt Ryan with musical direction by Julian Kelly, and produced by John McColgan/Moya Doherty of Riverdance fame, ran for six weeks at The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin.

Sam Barthe School for Boys

Much like the popular quiz shows Jeopardy!, the Prep Quiz Bowl featured teams of highly gifted academic students from schools of all sizes from around the region, testing students knowledge and game strategy in a head-to-head elimination tournament lasting several weeks.

Samuel Ringgold Ward

Ward, having met Mrs. Stowe at the house of Rev. James Sherman next door to his Surrey Chapel on Blackfriars Road, in May 1853, was invited to stay at the 'Surrey Chapel Parsonage' along with Mrs Stowe's husband, the Rev. Dr. Stowe, and brother Rev. C. Beecher, for three weeks.

Shock therapy

Insulin shock therapy, a form of psychiatric treatment in which patients were repeatedly injected with large doses of insulin in order to produce daily comas for several weeks

Spider-Man: With Great Power

Tony Harris explained that With Great Power takes place in between the two panels in which Amazing Fantasy writer Stan Lee's narration mentions the coming weeks and months that passed, during which Spider-Man used his superhuman abilities to become a celebrity.

Teens in the Wild

The first series, broadcast in four parts over four weeks, followed six male teenagers, each with their own individual behavioural difficulties, as they undertook a three-week activity programme at Delphi Adventure in Connemara, County Galway during September 2008.

The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime

Marc Summers was the show's announcer for its first few weeks and Johnny Gilbert announced the remainder of the series.

The Jammers

The song was written by Margaret Blount and Richie Weeks and was mixed by Shep Pettibone.

United States Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command

During STC the Special Operations Capabilities Specialists will also attend Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) training along with a MARSOF Level 1 Course specific to their MOS: Explosive Ordnance Disposal (6 weeks), Communications (12 weeks), Intelligence (4-6 weeks), Joint Terminal Attack Controller (4 weeks), Multi-Purpose Canine (10 weeks), or SARC/IDC Corpsman (13 months).

Vickie Guerrero

Two weeks later she got involved in a match between WWE Women's Champion Michelle McCool and Tiffany causing Tiffany to win the match by DQ.

Walter Reade

By three weeks, AromaRama beat a competing system, Scent of Mystery (1960), in Smell-O-Vision.

White and Black Blues

It debuted at number 47 on 26 May 1990 and reached number two seven weeks later, but was unable to top the chart ("Zouk Machine", Ursull's former band, was then number one with "Maldòn").

You Make the Whole World Smile

The song was also notable for knocking the song "Can't Help Falling in Love" by UB40 out of the number 1 spot it had held for 10 weeks, the UB40 song returned to number 1 the following week.


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